The coming year 2017 will be held under the auspices of the Rooster, which means that the development of the festive table menu should be taken seriously. It is better not to cook the traditional baked chicken, which everyone is used to eating at the New Year's table, so as not to anger the "king". You should connect your imagination and think about what hot dishes for the New Year 2017 will be appropriate on the festive table. We will talk about original and spectacular hot holiday appetizers, by preparing which you will demonstrate your culinary talents to your family and friends.

Recipes for meat dishes for the New Year's table

What meat dishes are most often prepared for a festive table or for a family banquet? Of course, steaks, chops, cutlets, meat in French, meat with gravy or baked in the form of boiled pork. However, there are many other insanely delicious hot snacks that you can please your loved ones.

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You will need:

• pork tenderloin - 1 kg;
• spices - dried herbs (rosemary, thyme, basil, coriander);
• french mustard - 3 tbsp. spoons;
• garlic - 5 cloves;
• flour, sunflower oil - 1 tbsp. spoon
• salt, black pepper - as you like.

Rinse the meat with cool water and pat dry. Rub the tenderloin with spices, salt, pepper, crushed garlic. Mix mustard, honey, flour and butter in a deep plate, rub the meat with the resulting mass. Wrap the tenderloin with cling film and refrigerate for 2-3 hours. Bake in the sleeve at 180°C for 1.5 hours.

Your guests will not forget the elegant, rich taste

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Pork roll with bacon and mushrooms

As a hot dish for the year of the Rooster, pork roll will look amazing on the festive table. Anything can be wrapped in meat: mushrooms, cheese, vegetables, prunes, nuts, bacon, ham and even eggs. For meat preparation of a roll stuffed with mushrooms and bacon, you will need:

• 1.5 kg pork neck (not too wide) or loin;
• a little vegetable and butter;
• 1 onion;
• 2 cloves of garlic;
• 70 g of hard cheese;
• 0.5 kg of champignons;
• 200 g bacon;
• salt, spices.

In a very hot frying pan, combine vegetable and butter, then fry a whole piece of meat in it for 5 minutes until golden brown.

Meatloaf is delicious both hot and cold.

Make the filling: brown the chopped onion in a pan, add the mushrooms chopped into small plates to it. Lastly, send thinly sliced ​​bacon to the pan. Add grated cheese to the ruddy mass brought to readiness - it will make the consistency of the filling viscous, so that it will stick better in the roll.

Make a deep cut in the thickest part of the meat to make an envelope, then stuff it with the resulting stuffing. Form a tight roll, tighten the edges with a thread, wrap in foil, put in an oven preheated to 200 ° C for 1.5 hours.

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Veal in puff pastry

You will need:

• veal tenderloin - 0.5 kg;
• ready-made puff pastry - 250 g;
• champignons - 150 g;
• onion - 1 pc.;
• vegetable, butter - 2 tbsp. spoons;
• pepper, salt - as you like.

Chop the onion and mushrooms as finely as you can. Fry them individually until they are nicely browned. Combine mushrooms with onions, season with salt and pepper. Rub the meat on all sides with salt and any seasonings, fry whole in a pan over high heat until browned.

Roll out the dough thinner, give it a shape slightly longer than a piece of meat. Place the onion-mushroom filling on the dough, distributing it evenly, and put the meat on top of it. Beat the protein, brush the edges of the dough with it and roll up the roll, place it on a baking sheet: the seam should be at the bottom. Whisk the protein, grease the dough with it. Put in a well-heated oven for half an hour, then reduce the temperature to 150 ° C and bake the roll for another 20 minutes.

Serve the dish in portions, with tomato sauce or French mustard

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Ribs baked in pomegranate sauce

You can cook this hot dish for the New Year both from pork ribs, and from lamb or beef. It will take about 1 kg of ribs, as well as:

• dried herbs - saffron and rosemary;
• pomegranate thick sauce - 5 tbsp. spoons;
• garlic - 4-5 cloves;
• onion - 1 pc.;
• soy sauce - 3 tbsp. spoons;
• lemon - 1/2 part;
• salt, black, red pepper.

Wash the pre-prepared divided ribs, remove the films. Chop garlic and onion as finely as possible. Prepare the marinade: mix pomegranate sauce with lemon juice, add the juice of half a lemon. Rub the ribs with the spices, onion and garlic, then dip in the sweet and sour marinade. They need time to marinate - 5-6 hours. Then bake in the oven at 200°C for about half an hour.

Serve the ribs garnished with pomegranate seeds and sesame seeds

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What kind of bird can be served for the year of the Rooster

It is better not to cook a chicken on the night of the year of the Rooster, but if you really want poultry meat, no less tasty and healthy turkey meat can come to replace chicken. If you want something more caloric, cook duck, and lovers of lean meat will like goose stewed with vegetables.

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Turkey in orange ginger ale

This is a really elegant and solemn dish with a delicate, elegant taste, which will come in handy on any of the Christmas evenings. It is quite laborious, but the result is worth it. You will need:

• turkey, weighing 4-5 kg;
• oranges - 3 pcs. or freshly squeezed juice from them - 2 cups;
• butter - 150 g;
• sugar - 3 tbsp. spoons;
• ginger root;
• spices - Provence herbs, cinnamon, cloves, red ground pepper;
• garlic - a few cloves, to taste.

Wash the turkey, dry it, rub the garlic on a fine grater. Coat the bird with salt, garlic porridge and Provence herbs, leave to marinate. Meanwhile, prepare the orange ginger ale. Squeeze the juice from 3 oranges (you get about 1.5-2 glasses of juice), pour into a saucepan, put on fire. Peel the ginger root and grate on a fine grater 1 tsp. product.
Add ginger, butter, spices and sugar to your taste to the warmed orange juice, mix well. Let the sauce simmer slightly, stirring all the time. Drizzle the turkey with orange ale and place in the oven.

The meat is tender, sweetish, with an elegant caramel crust.

and 4-5 hours at a temperature of 180-200°C. It is better to choose a deep baking sheet, since every 20 minutes you will water the bird with sauce so that it is well soaked with it.

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New Year's "Beer Goose"

This dish will be appreciated not only by beer lovers, but also by all those who love deliciously cooked poultry meat. You will need:

• goose - 3 kg;
• onions - 2-3 heads;
• light beer - 1 l;
• salt, black allspice, bay leaf - by eye.

It is better to cut the goose carcass into pieces, removing all excess fat. This bird has rather tough meat: it simply will not bake if you cook it whole. Send the chopped goose to a deep frying pan over high heat until an appetizing crust forms. 10 minutes before turning off the fire, salt and pepper the bird well, add the onion cut into half rings. When the goose with onions becomes appetizing, transfer the pieces of meat to a roaster or roaster, pour beer and simmer over low heat for 1-1.5 hours.

A dish made from poultry will have a unique taste.

Do not worry, all the alcohol will be melted, only the original, pleasant taste will remain, and the meat will be tender and soft.

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Baked duck with apples, rice and prunes

Having prepared such a hot dish for the New Year, you will immediately receive meat and a side dish, which is very convenient and tasty! This requires the following ingredients:

• duck - 2 kg;
• rice - 300 g;
• prunes - 100-150 g;
• apples - 2 pcs.;
• salt, pepper, garlic - as you like.

Rub the duck with a mixture of salt, pepper and crushed garlic. Boil the rice until half cooked, adding a little salt to the water. Steam prunes for a few minutes in boiling water, cut it into strips. Mix rice with prunes, stuff the duck with the resulting mass. To prevent the filling from falling out, sew up the skin or carefully fasten it with toothpicks. Place the bird in the preheated oven in a deep baking dish with the sliced ​​apples on the sides. Fat will stand out from the duck, do not forget to water the bird with it every 20 minutes. Cooking time - 1.5 hours at a temperature of 220 ° C.

Cut the bird into pieces, put the rice on a dish, decorate with herbs

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Hot fish appetizers on the New Year's table

Thinking about what hot dishes to cook for the New Year, do not forget about fish and seafood. Preparing this delicacy is quite simple, because the fish is very tender, marinates quickly and does not cook for long. Try unusual fish recipes that will surprise you:

Red fish in sweet and sour sauce, marinated in lemon juice and herbs, baked with pineapple pieces. The meal will take no more than 20 minutes to prepare.

Festive fish serving option

Skewers of sea bream or trout marinated in soy sauce. For all its simplicity, this appetizer looks like from a restaurant. All you need to do is marinate the fish in spices and salt, and then quickly fry it.

It is convenient to string pieces of fish on bamboo skewers.

Motley fish with seafood. Any sea fish cut into fillets, salt and pepper, sprinkle with lemon juice. Grease the form with oil, put the fish, and on it - thin slices of vegetables, such as cauliflower and tomatoes, as well as seafood. Sprinkle with herbs, grated cheese and pour over with cream. Bake at 200°C for 25 minutes.

Instead of sea fish, you can use a carp carcass

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What to serve as a side dish on New Year's Eve

Meat dishes are always paired with side dishes. But on New Year’s Eve, you don’t want to stand at the stove for too long, so arm yourself with recipes for simple, but no less tasty holiday side dishes.

Rustic potatoes. Cut 10 medium-sized potatoes into 4 slices (without peeling), season well with salt, ground black pepper, and your favorite seasonings. Drizzle with vegetable oil, place everything in a baking sleeve. The dish is cooked for 40-50 minutes at a temperature of 180 ° C, the sleeve must be periodically turned, and 10 minutes before readiness - open.

Crispy potato slices will not leave anyone indifferent

Potato casserole with mushrooms and cream. Cut the potatoes and champignons into thin plates, then fry the mushrooms in a pan until browned. Put potatoes and mushrooms on a baking sheet in layers in turn, pour cream 15% fat. Send all this to the oven for 30 minutes, and after a while, sprinkle with grated hard cheese and cook for another 15 minutes.

You can fantasize and cook casseroles from any ingredients

Instead of mushrooms for casseroles, you can use pieces of red fish - it harmonizes perfectly with cream and cheese.

In the end, pilaf will look great on the New Year's table in 2017, especially since the rooster - a symbol of the coming year - will certainly approve the presence of rice and other cereals or legumes.

There are many more options for hot dishes for the year of the Rooster, which you can treat your family to. Armed with the above recipes, you will create a delicious harmonious holiday menu that your loved ones will certainly appreciate.

In the pre-holiday bustle, they devote a lot of time to choosing gifts, decorating their homes, they begin to plan an outfit for the celebration in advance, and they do all this, taking into account the features and requirements of the symbol of the upcoming New Year.

It cannot be said that little attention is paid to the table, but when buying expensive products, housewives are more likely to focus on the preferences of their family, from year to year they cook even their favorite, but the same dishes. This is a big mistake. Treats at the meeting of the New Year should be given special attention.

What to put on our beautiful table?

When deciding what to cook for the Year of the Rooster and what menu to choose for the New Year, we will take into account the preferences of the future symbol - elegance, simplicity, naturalness. To appease the Fire Rooster, remember that this is a bird that cannot be called greedy. So the main wish for the New Year's table is prosperity, not excess. Do not try to excel in culinary delights - dishes should be understandable, not too pretentious, but suggest a choice for a wide variety of tastes.

The traditional set - appetizers, salads, cuts, sandwiches, hot dishes and dessert - will provide a tasty and plentiful feast worthy of a fiery representative of birds.

What has no place on the table

In order not to upset the proud bird, think about what dishes on your menu the Rooster would not be happy about. The answer will come immediately - prepared from his relatives!

1. Rule number 1 for the New Year's table 2017: no chicken! If you really like roast poultry, it’s better to cook some competitor in the poultry yard: duck, goose or turkey.
2. The Rooster, who is responsible for its offspring, can be alerted by too frankly served egg dishes: stuffed, aspic or used entirely in a salad, for example, in the form of mushrooms or snowmen. At the same time, eggs may well be part of other dishes: it is no secret that chickens willingly feast on them.

Preferred products for New Year's dishes

When thinking about compiling a menu, choose products that are to the taste of your family and guests, while not contradicting the symbolism of this year.

1. A maximum of vegetables, the most diverse, better multi-colored, especially "fiery" shades.
2. Fish and other seafood: a representative of oriental culture (Chinese calendar!) is sure to please.
3. Side dishes are always to the taste of the feathered symbol. Of course, cereal dishes may seem rustic for the New Year's table, but the same rice can be prepared in a very unusual and festive way.
4. Salads should not be overly complex, with lots of ingredients: Rooster loves "clear", simple, traditionally loved flavors. Prepare your family's favorite holiday salads.
5. For dessert, take care of baking, because the grains from which the flour is made are the first delicacy for the Rooster, and then there will be such delicious crumbs! It is better that the dishes are prepared with your own hands, and not bought ready-made: poultry will appreciate the invested family energy and increase it. A very good option is painted gingerbread hung on a Christmas tree. The village bird will also be pleased with cottage cheese desserts like cheesecake.
6. Do not skimp on the greens: what could be better for a rooster than fresh grass? Use it in salads, as well as when decorating dishes.
7. When choosing between homemade and store-bought, opt for more natural products. For example, mayonnaise for homemade salads is much tastier than store-bought, and milk for custard should by no means be powdered. You need to put your hands on this New Year's table: believe me, the result will be worth it!

Chicken meat can always be replaced with turkey, or any other, and chicken eggs with indo-duck, or quail.

The Rooster does not impose special requirements on drinks, but still, as a male representative, stronger options will be to his taste, although you should not refuse traditional champagne under the chiming clock.

Hot dish. What is the main dish to choose for the year of the Rooster

There are two options here: either a traditional chicken, or quails prepared in the same way, a duck, or a goose. They will yield in terms of taste to the chicken, and maybe the guests will like it more.

You can also cook a beef roll as a main dish, or a home-style roast with pork. It does not hurt to bring the dish to a crisp during cooking, and decorate brighter when serving.

We offer a choice of several New Year's hot dishes.

Salmon baked in the oven in its own juice

Baked salmon is good because it can be cooked both high-calorie and light, dietary (for this we put the fish in foil).

The fish can be baked whole or cut into steaks.

Ingredients:

• salmon steak,
• salt,
• ground pepper,
• dry basil.

Cooking:

1. Sprinkle the steaks with salt and send for 20 minutes in the refrigerator.
2. At the same time, turn on the oven to heat up to 180 degrees.
3. If you bake in a mold, then fill it with a quarter of water and close the fish with a lid.
   If you want a lighter and less calorie dish, wrap the salmon in foil.
4. Sprinkle basil on top.
5. Bake 25 minutes. If you want to achieve the effect of a golden crust, open the lid and simmer for another 10 minutes.

Pork schnitzel for the festive table

Ingredients for 4 servings:

• 4 slices (150 - g) loin,
• 1 cup flour
• 2 eggs,
• 2 cups breadcrumbs,
• salt pepper,
• butter and vegetable oil for frying.

You will need clamps for roasting meat.

Cooking:

1. Salt the pork pieces 1.5 cm thick and put in the freezer for 15-20 minutes.
2. Take out the chilled meat, pepper.
3. Roll in flour and lightly beaten eggs.
4. Place the meat in the roasting clamps.
5. Heat up a frying pan and add sunflower oil and a tablespoon of butter.
6. Fry the meat directly in the clamps on both sides for about 2-3 minutes.

Serve the dish immediately hot.

What New Year's snacks will appeal to the Rooster on the eve of 2017

If hot is called the main decoration of the table, then snacks are its design.

They are present on every table from the beginning of the meal to its very end.

Let's calm the housewives right away, everyone's favorite sandwiches with red caviar can be present on the table. She likes the Rooster with her bright color and shape, which resembles grains. Red caviar can also be used to decorate served dishes.

You can also use rolls as a win-win snack. If you don’t want to order in a store or try a previously unfamiliar dish for the first time on New Year’s Eve, then you can cook an appetizer yourself.

Try one of the original and beautiful recipes.

Appetizer with avocado and shrimp (or crab)

You can make original tartlets, the baskets of which will not be made of dough, but directly from avocado slices.

Ingredients for 4 servings:

• 4 ripe avocados
• 200 g frozen shrimp (or crabs),
• 1 shallot (can be replaced with ordinary, but not bitter onions),
• half a cucumber
• half a red chili pepper
• juice of 1 lime,
• 1-2 tablespoons of sunflower or olive oil,
• a quarter teaspoon of salt
• 2 tablespoons fresh cilantro.

Cooking:

1. If your shrimp (crabs) are frozen, thaw them at room temperature or place them in a colander with water.
2. Then cut into small pieces.
3. Peel and finely chop the onion.
4. Cut the cucumber and chop it into slices or small cubes.
5. Remove the seeds from the chili pepper and finely chop.
6. We mix all the ingredients, adding lemon juice, oil, salt and finely chopped cilantro to them.
7. Cut the avocado in half and remove the pits.
8. Put the stuffing in the avocado.
9. Decorate with cilantro on top.

Serve as an appetizer or as part of other meals.

Cucumber rolls with bacon (or cheese)

Ingredients for 4 servings:

• bacon (or cheese) - 170 g,
• cucumber - 1 piece,
• fresh parsley.

For this recipe, you will need skewers to secure the finished rolls. They can be wooden and plastic, in the form of a simple stick and with a textured tip: the main thing is that they are long enough!

Cooking:

1. Cut the bacon into thin slices if you bought it in pieces.
2. Fry the bacon on both sides until crispy.
3. Slice the cucumber into thin strips that will curl up and not break. For this, long-fruited varieties are best suited.
4. Place the fried bacon on top of the cucumber, roll up tightly and secure with a skewer.
5. Garnish with fresh parsley and boldly decorate the holiday table with this appetizer!

When discussing the choice of snacks when meeting the Year of the Rooster, remember the rule - everything is bright and crispy!

Ideally, if you can use cereals and flour products to decorate snacks (and other dishes).

Therefore, pies and cakes on the New Year's table will definitely appeal to the Rooster! True, one “but” arises here: then you will have to go on a diet ...

So decide for yourself)))

But berries, fruits and vegetables of different colors at the meeting of 2017 should be considered not only from the side of taste, but first of all, taking into account their appearance and color.

Orange citrus fruits, red apples, green grapes and red quince can create whole masterpieces on the table.

And now the New Year's salads!

What's a table without salads?!

Vegetable, meat, mushroom and fish variations are welcome guests on the New Year's table 2017.

There are no rules for those who stubbornly do not want to tease the Rooster, except for the unwanted use of chicken eggs and chicken meat. But, pay attention, we are talking only about the obvious presence of such eggs. But they can be disguised in a dish))).

Do not refuse the traditional Olivier!

In it, one of the main ingredients can be replaced with quail or indout eggs. To taste, they are practically no different from such familiar chicken.

Ingredients:

• 200 g boiled chicken,
• 2 medium boiled carrots
• 2 boiled potatoes,
• 3 boiled eggs
• 2-3 pickles,
• 100 g canned peas,
• aioli sauce for dressing (or the usual mayonnaise).

Traditional cooking method: cut into small cubes and mix. But the design may be different. Can be put in a large salad bowl. And you can serve separately for each guest in a bowl or a glass.

Light salad with tuna and mozzarella

In addition to traditional salads, it doesn’t hurt to try to cook something new for the New Year’s table! We offer a new recipe for a salad with fish and cheese.

Ingredients for 6 servings:

• 1 head of iceberg lettuce (about 200-300 g), or any other,
• 200-250 g mozzarella,
• 1-2 medium sized ripe tomatoes (or cherry)
• 130 g canned tuna (in its own juice or oil - it doesn't matter).

For filling:

• 4 tablespoons of olive oil,
• 1 tablespoon Dijon mustard
• 2 tablespoons white wine or apple cider vinegar
• a large clove of garlic (or two small ones)
• salt and pepper.

Cooking:

1. In a bowl, mix the grated garlic with the products for the filling until a homogeneous emulsion.
2. Chop lettuce into large chunks.
3. Add chopped tomatoes, mozzarella and tuna (must drain the juice!).
4. Mix everything and serve.

Bon Appetit)))

If you choose between recipes, then pay attention to the peasant options, which contain a lot of vegetables, meat and herbs.

So, the basic rules of the New Year's table:

• The festive table should be as bright and colorful as possible.
• The more plant foods on the table, the better.
• A crispy crust or the use of crackers and chips to decorate ready-made dishes is highly recommended.
• The festive table should not only be rich in treats and dishes, it must be beautifully decorated and decorated.
• Do not be stingy with real dishes - no disposable plates and cups!
• Let the whole decoration of the festive table be as bright as possible.

To make the New Year holidays a success, follow these simple rules, and then the happy Rooster will not leave you without his patronage!

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The upcoming New Year 2017 according to the Eastern Horoscope will be the Year of the Red Fire Rooster, and therefore we will celebrate the holiday under the auspices of this Symbol. He comes to replace the same Fire Monkey, whose year will soon end.

In order for the holiday to be a success, and with it the whole next year to succeed, it is necessary to honor the Monkey with dignity and honor and meet the Rooster just as worthily! Thus, we will be able to thank the Mistress of the Year for the good that we had this year! And to show worthy respect to the incoming Master of the Year, appease him, so that next year he will become our good assistant in all matters and undertakings.

And how can you win over the Master of the Year? That's right, you need to prepare well for the New Year's Eve - gather your whole family together at the same table, draw up a holiday script so that everyone has fun and joy, choose gifts for everyone and feed everyone deliciously. Of course, all this must be done together, distributing responsibilities to everyone. So that everyone is imbued with the expectation of the holiday and invested their part in holding it.

Many have already begun preparing for the holiday - they look through information related to the New Year, look for recipes, and think over an outfit. Of course, we also started it on the pages of our blogs: we select good and proven recipes, draw up an approximate menu, and share tips

And although the blog pages already have separate articles about salads and appetizers for the New Year's table, and even there are ready-made recipes for the compiled holiday menu, let's take a closer look at such an important topic - what should be on the table on New Year's Eve! After all, this is a very important aspect that worries a lot of people. And in today's article I will try to answer all your questions on this topic.

In order to properly arrange the New Year's table 2017, and not to make a mistake in compiling the menu, you need to know some of the characteristics of the Master of the Year. If we understand the basis of this, then it will immediately become clear to us how to decorate and how to set the table for the holiday.

Rooster is a very effective and sophisticated sign of the Eastern Horoscope. He is bright, demonstrative, likes to be in sight, in every way encourages attention to himself. But at the same time, he does not tolerate excessive extravagance, since by nature he is rather thrifty. He does not like excessive pomposity, superficial tinsel and pretense of luxury. On the contrary, it welcomes everything practical and simple, tasteful, beautiful and sophisticated.

He is very organized and responsible (he gets up before everyone else, and does not forget to wake up the one who needs to get up), pedantic. His energy splashes over the edge, he is active and decisive. Its element is Fire, and therefore, in order for it to burn brightly, it must be constantly nourished. And he feeds on new bold ideas, various experiments, decisive actions.

Serving and decoration of the festive table

A beautifully decorated table is the ability of any hostess to show herself from the best side, that is, her kind of calling card. Therefore, if “the theater begins with a hanger”, then the festive table begins with decor and serving.

In the Year of the Red Rooster, the main color is red, and all its many shades. Colors are also welcome - yellow, gold, pure shades of brown, white, green. All colors should be bright and saturated.

It is in these colors that you will need to decorate your table. The tablecloth is available in red or white. Napkins can be chosen in a contrasting color, or in tone. That is, if you choose a red tablecloth, then you can put napkins in gold or white. If you choose a white tablecloth, then the napkins can be red or burgundy.

If you choose one color for both the tablecloth and napkins, for example white, then create additional color spots in the desired colors. For example, red candles, a green sprig of needles, bright Christmas decorations.

Given that the Rooster is still more of a villager, then you can use a linen or cotton tablecloth, with the same napkins.

That is, to begin with, conduct an audit of what you have - what kind of tablecloth, are there any napkins. Decide in what style you would like to see your holiday table. Draw an imaginary picture. Maybe you do not have something and you will need to buy something.

Style also depends on the dishes you have. If you have an expensive porcelain service and silverware, then a rustic linen tablecloth with embroidered flowers will not fit such dishes. And vice versa, rustic-style dishes cannot be placed on an exquisite burgundy tablecloth. The dishes should also be in harmony with the color of the tablecloth.

So, if you decide to decorate the table in a rustic style, then use wooden or earthenware. Put painted rustic dishes in the style of Khokhloma or Gzhel on it.

Place wooden spoons in salad bowls. Create the appropriate decor as well. Put on the table various wickerwork (vases) with fruits, wheat grains or spikelets, wooden candlesticks with candles.

But remember one rule: do not overload the table with all sorts of trinkets. Firstly, they interfere, and secondly, they can irritate guests. Try to put only what will be used, or necessary to create an atmosphere.

Everything should look beautiful and caress the look. Nothing should stand out and be very striking. Remember that the Rooster loves - simplicity and quality! And he is categorically against any bad taste.

If you have an old tablecloth, but you do not want to spend money on a new one, then you can lay a beautiful translucent tulle over the old one, or another similar fabric.

Do not ignore napkins, they give any table a festive look. If you have rag napkins, then they can be neatly folded, put on rings or tied with ribbons. Or beautifully fold paper napkins and fasten them with special clips.

What should be on the table on New Year's Eve 2017

To correctly answer this question, you need to think about what the Rooster loves.

1. And he loves, first of all, grains, nuts, vegetables, fruits, fish, seafood. Beef, pork, lamb, turkey, duck, goose are also not excluded. Although there is an opinion that close "relatives" should not be on the table either.

From these products and their combinations, you can cook a large number of tasty, beautiful and healthy dishes. There is already a large and informative article on the pages of my blog, which is made up of 25 dishes, ranging from appetizers to dessert.

2. When decorating dishes, special attention should be paid to ensuring that they are bright, colorful, truly festive. Red, yellow, green and all their shades will certainly please the Master of the Year. Therefore, in the design, you can use all the colors of bell peppers, tomatoes, cucumbers, beets - everyone's favorite will come in handy! Especially if you make it in a very unconventional way - in jelly.

3. In the design we also use pomegranate seeds, cranberries, canned corn, green peas. Fortunately, nature tried and created such colorful vegetables, fruits and berries.

4. Be sure to put a large bowl of fruit on the table. Buy a little of everything, and in the colors that the Rooster loves, lay them out nicely. Such abundance and beauty will not go unnoticed by our Handsome, and will create an atmosphere of celebration. Do not forget about tangerines, their presence and smell is the same invariable attribute of the New Year, like a Christmas tree with toys.

5. Red caviar is a special priority this year. It corresponds in color to the Symbol of the Year, has a red-orange color, besides, we do not buy caviar every day, and whether you like it or not, it can be considered a delicacy. And our Cockerel loves delicacies and all sorts of delights!

6. Therefore, other delicacies will be welcomed on the table, such as expensive blue cheese, jerky or jamon, smoked eel, red fish. Let there be very few frills, but if any of the above is on your table on New Year's Eve, then the Rooster will appreciate it. He will understand that you tried for him.

7. Fish, and especially red fish, are also a big priority. Therefore, use it in slicing when making fish plates, or decorate salads with it. By the way, in the New Year's menu I compiled, there is already such a salad in two different designs - this is a salad and a salad "Starfish"

Agree, the perfect decoration for the holiday table!

8. Dishes with different New Year themes will also come in handy. These are salads in the form of Christmas trees, in the form of Christmas toys. And salads and appetizers in the appropriate design.

Snacks for the festive table

1. Snacks can be prepared both and. You also need to cook them from those ingredients and in the design that the Symbol of the Year loves. By clicking on the links, you will find 21 cold and 7 unique hot snacks for yourself. When compiling the menu, try to choose such snacks that do not take too much time to prepare.

Time is a valuable value, especially before the New Year! Everything must be done and everything must be in time - to tidy up the house and decorate it for the holiday, set the table, bring yourself and the children in perfect order. And after all this, you need not to fall from fatigue without waiting for the chiming clock!

2. The main snack for the New Year's table, of course, is jelly! As people say - “What is the New Year without jelly? And what to eat vodka with? ” And the people are right in this, even if they “snack vodka”, even if they just eat it, but JELLY - there should be on the festive table!

Festive jelly is cooked from three types of meat - pork knuckle, veal shank and chicken meat are used. If chicken meat cannot be used this year, then take turkey drumsticks instead. The jelly will also be tasty, and the Rooster will not be offended. How to cook a festive jelly, or other options for jelly, you can see. And if you cook it according to your original recipe, then it will also be great!

3. It looks beautiful as an aspic appetizer, this is aspic fish, an excellent recipe for which I recently saw on the website http://garim-parim.ru/, and aspic with vegetables and meat.

Aspic is a real decoration for the festive table, besides, everyone loves it, and it never stays!

Salads for the New Year

1. Not a single holiday table is complete without salads. The main salad for the New Year's festive table is, of course, a salad with the image of the Symbol of the coming year. This salad is best prepared with meat, fish or seafood. After all, the chicken itself will not be used, so as not to offend the Owner.

You need to make it bright and not like the others. It should be different from everyone else, stand out and catch the eye. So that only at one glance at him, he would cause admiration and exclamations of approval from all those present! Cockerel will definitely like this salad, and he will not leave it unattended.

2. And we already have such a salad - this. By the way, the salad is unique, and its uniqueness lies in the fact that there is no such thing anymore - it was invented by me just a few days ago, especially for the celebration of the New Year!

This salad can be prepared by clicking on the link above. And I must tell you that it fully complies with the principles by which we select the menu. It is new, and the Rooster loves everything new very much, it is bright, it contains all the necessary colors, and it is incomparably tasty, besides, it contains all the ingredients that our Handsome loves!

By the way, there you will also find another salad - children's "Cockerel - Golden Scallop"! My granddaughter, for whom I prepared it, was completely delighted with it!

3. And of course, no one has canceled other salads. On the Internet, you can find just a great many of them. I tried to collect in one article the most popular of them, among them completely new ones, as well as favorite old salads in a new version for them. After all, the Master of the Year loves experiments, and knows that everything new is a well-forgotten old!

16 best salads are presented in a special article. When selecting them, all aspects and wishes were taken into account. Ready-made ideas with a detailed step-by-step description will easily allow you to choose and prepare a salad to your liking.

Hot dishes for the New Year 2017

Hot meals are a separate issue. Now not everyone cooks them, they are limited only to appetizers and salads. But if you decide to cook, then you should try and think through all the details. When serving, the dish should look perfect, its taste should be beyond praise. The Master of the Year is a big pedant in such matters; he will not be happy with a burnt crust on a turkey, meat that is dry as a sole, or a fish that will fall apart when it is removed from a baking sheet.

Therefore, prepare such a hot dish, in which you are 100% sure, which has been prepared more than once. And if you decide on a new one, then make a dress rehearsal and prepare it somewhere in November, early December. And then you can make the necessary adjustments to the preparation.

Among the hot dishes, almost everything will be welcomed, except for chicken.

1. Oven baked duck, turkey, goose. You can bake them with apples, prunes, dried fruits, nuts. With vegetables, fruits, rice, buckwheat. In general, with everything that only has enough imagination and skill.

2. It is good to serve boiled pork, meatloaf, meat baked in dough, pork with vegetables. There are a lot of meat dishes, different, tasty, their own specialties - so choose a recipe for every taste. And again I want to invite you to mine, there are just great ideas for this!

3., baked on a barbecue - all this will certainly be appreciated! After all, the Element of the Fire Rooster is Fire! Therefore, dishes cooked on live fire will be just what you need!

4. Red fish will also be a priority. It is best to bake it in the oven, you can in foil, so we cooked. In the same way, or in any other way, you can bake trout or salmon. And if you buy and bake sturgeon, then it will generally be just a royal treat!

It is not advisable to just fry it. The rooster does not like heavy and very fatty foods.

5. Very often, dumplings are prepared for the festive table. And this year will also be no exception. In addition, dumplings can be stuck in advance and frozen. And for the holiday it remains only to cook them, it will take quite a bit of time

6. And instead of traditional dumplings, I advise you to cook no less tasty ones. Since they are larger in size, they can be cooked much faster than dumplings. And it's not at all difficult to do so. The main thing is to have a manty cooker, because manti is steamed.

7. In general, this year, dough products will come in handy. They are prepared from flour, and flour is ground from grain. And the grain, you know, is the main food of the Rooster!

Therefore, feel free to cook pies, kulebyaki, stretches. And use the filling in accordance with the above wishes.

8. And what can be cooked from cereals? For me, this is not a question at all, of course pilaf! What could be tastier? And how bright and beautiful it is when served - it's just a FAIRY TALE! By the way, with the recipe that I am pleased to offer you, you will not only cook, but also enjoy the process of its preparation in full. Because cooking pilaf is a very exciting process that leaves no one indifferent!

Well, here's how much has already been prepared. Choose for every taste.

But remember, cook everything in moderation! So that everything is enough, and that nothing has to be thrown away.

The rooster is a zealous and very thrifty host! Throw away food? What else have you come up with!!! He will not approve of this and will be extremely unhappy!

Desserts and drinks

• If you are preparing desserts for the New Year, then try to make them light. If it comes to them, then after what was already on the table, some very nutritious dessert will definitely not be eaten! Cake, fruit pie is better to bake on January 2-3! After all, the holiday continues to this day!

But Italian or will not remain in the refrigerator. These desserts are so light and tender that all guests will taste them with pleasure. Even if they are already full!

And children are usually always delighted with this. In the winter version, I call it "Festive Snowdrift".

Do not use fatty creams for desserts. It will be superfluous for the stomach, and the Symbol of the Year will certainly not like it.

You can also make light cookies for tea. Add nuts, dried fruits or candied fruits to it. Such cookies, even if you do not eat everything at once, you can eat with pleasure the next day.

• Now, as for the drinks. When choosing them, consider the cocky disposition of the Rooster. When sober, he is the very gallantry and sophistication, and if he goes over too much, then how would everyone have to hide in the corners!

Therefore, given this fact, do not try to put a lot of strong drinks on the table. If you really can’t do without them, then use them at least in moderation.

But golden champagne and red wine, to match the colors of our handsome man - be sure to put it on the table! What is the New Year without champagne? What will we make a wish for next year!

You can also prepare cocktails, both alcoholic and non-alcoholic. Bright, fragrant, beautiful - with a cherry or a strawberry - won't this please our Host. In addition, translated from French cock tail - "cock's tail", you know what I'm getting at ...

Do not forget to make a “frosty snowball” around the edge of the glass. To do this, dip the edge of the glass in sugar syrup, and then in sugar. Let it cool - and here it is our beautiful filled glass.

Sprouted grains of wheat

This year, some grains must be on the festive table. And best of all, if it is sprouted grains. This promises wealth, prosperity and prosperity in the house for the whole next year. In addition, they also decorate the table.

How to germinate wheat grains.

1. First you need to sort out the grains. Separate the wheat from the chaff. Put grains in water, healthy grains will sink, and empty grains will float along with rubbish. Remove rubbish.
2. Soak beans for 6-8 hours. Then drain the water, and rinse the grains thoroughly in several waters until it becomes transparent.
3. Lay gauze in several layers in a small bowl. Pour out the washed grains on it and cover with another layer of gauze on top.
4. Pour boiled water at room temperature so that it slightly covers the grains.
5. Put the bowl in a bright, warm place. It will be necessary to change the water 3-4 times a day, make sure that the grains are wet all the time. Do not pour a lot of water, as the wheat may become moldy.
6. Usually grains germinate in 2 days. And in a week there will be high grass. Therefore, put them for germination in advance.

What should not be on the New Year's table 2017

1. Chicken dishes should not be on the New Year's table 2017. That is, you can not put a whole chicken on the table, or use chicken meat in salads and snacks. It is believed that this may offend the Rooster, and next year he will not help you.

We'll have to somehow do without everyone's favorite meat! If your signature salads contain chicken meat, then replace it with beef or pork. Salads from this will not become less tasty, but on the contrary, they will acquire new flavors. And maybe look at a familiar salad as something new. And later you want to cook it in this version.

1. Also, do not put whole eggs or halves on the table. That is, it is not advisable to put stuffed eggs on the table. But you can use eggs in salads, or in cooking! Well, if you think that it is not advisable to use chicken eggs in salads, then here you can find a way out - use quail eggs. They will also give a familiar dish a new flavor note!

In principle, these are all limitations! Everything else is prepared as it was prepared!

Well, that’s probably all the recommendations for decorating the festive table in 2017. I didn’t write recipes in this article, because I thought that it could turn out to be too overloaded. But if you want to see recipes, then follow the links, there is just a huge offer for all categories of dishes. And most of the recipes are given with a detailed step-by-step description.

I tried to focus on the design, decor and what should be on the table on New Year's Eve. Well, how I did it, you be the judge.

If the article turned out to be useful for you, then please put a class, and share it with your friends. It might be interesting for them to read it as well as for you!

And if you have any questions or suggestions, write in the comments. I'll be happy to answer your question or respond to your request!

Happy New Year!

A good hostess who loves to surprise her loved ones with original and delicious dishes for any feast should now think about what to cook for the most important holiday of the year - the New Year 2017. You can start a selection of the best recipes right now. There is still a lot of time before the New Year 2017, so some culinary masterpieces need to be tried now to get used to them. And on December 31, in order to avoid unnecessary turmoil, the prudent hostess will turn out all the culinary delights to glory.

In this article, we will answer the question - What to cook for the New Year of the Rooster 2017?

What to cook for the holiday 2017: delicious recipes

According to a long-established tradition, many choose recipes for New Year's feast, depending on the symbol of the coming year. The patron saint of the new year 2017 is the Fire Rooster. The first association that arises about this poultry as a pedantic, bright and domineering figure is that the symbol of the new year 2017 is unlikely to like it if there are chicken and chicken eggs on the table. And then any hostess, of course, will wonder what to cook to please the capricious feathered one?

But it doesn’t matter, because a great many recipes for various salads, hot dishes and snacks have been invented in our time. Oven-baked chicken can always be replaced with duck, goose or turkey, especially since it has long been proven that turkey meat is much healthier and more nutritious than chicken. For lovers of native Russian cuisine, poultry meat on the farewell of the old year and the meeting of the new year 2017 can be represented, for example, by baked quails, which is unlikely to anger the domineering Fire Rooster.

Another nuance that His Majesty the Rooster may not like is the presence of chicken eggs on the New Year's table. Of course, if you stick to the tradition of choosing recipes for the New Year 2017 for the sake of its symbol, then you should not prepare snacks with the obvious use of these same eggs, for example, snacks in the form of chicken eggs stuffed with a mixture of yolks and mayonnaise with garlic. However, it is unlikely that the Fire Rooster will be against adding them to ordinary salads, for example, in everyone's favorite and adored Olivier salads. Because, well, what is the new year without Olivier? And the new year 2017 under the banner of the rooster should not be an exception. Particularly strict followers of the compilation of the New Year's menu for the sake of the symbol of the coming year will always be able to replace chicken eggs with quail eggs.

As you know, the rooster itself is a beautiful bird, with bright plumage, and even more so its fiery form suggests that the symbol of 2017 loves everything colorful and colorful. Therefore, serving and decorating the New Year's table must also be given sufficient attention. A lot of greenery, a lot of juicy, bright vegetables and fruits of different colors will certainly please the fastidious handsome man and surprise the guests with a riot of colors.

With what to cook for the New Year's table for the meeting of the Year of the Fire Rooster, it is already becoming a little clear, then what about the appropriate alcoholic or non-alcoholic drinks? What drinks will appeal to the feathered handsome man? Most likely, a pedantic cock will appreciate something classic, strong and masculine. Expensive cognac, whiskey, rum - this is what you should make from drinks for the new year 2017. And for women who prefer something less strong, traditional red semi-sweet wine is quite suitable, but no one has canceled the same traditional splashes of champagne to the sound of chimes .

What salads to cook for the New Year 2017? Recipes.

Of all the types of salads, vegetable or rustic types of salads will be the most suitable for the symbol of 2017, since the rooster is a domestic bird and immediately evokes associations of the countryside and the household. For example, the Mazurka salad turns out to be as bright and colorful as the patron saint of the coming year, and it also contains corn kernels and red beans.

Ingredients:

• one can each of canned corn and red beans
• medium-sized grinder - 1 piece
• fresh cucumbers (can be replaced with canned ones) - 2 pieces
• 100 g walnuts
• 2 garlic cloves
• salt, pepper to taste
• dressing oil (preferably olive oil)

Cooking:

1. Mix canned corn and beans in a deep wide cup, first drain unnecessary water from cans.
2. Add diced cucumbers to the cup, and it is best to chop the grinder into thin strips.
3. To quickly crush nuts, it is very convenient to place them in a tight bag and roll a dough wheel over them. Chopped walnuts are also added to the salad bowl with the rest of the ingredients.
4. Squeeze garlic cloves in a garlic press, salt and pepper to taste and add oil.
5. What can be prepared for exotic lovers for the New Year's table? For them, a salad of tomatoes and avocado with beetroot leaves is quite suitable.

Salad preparation video.

Tomato and avocado salad with beetroot leaves.

Photo: Recipe

Ingredients:

• 1/2 large or whole medium sized avocado
• medium sized tomatoes - 3 pieces
• half a large or one small bell pepper
• onion - 1 piece
• beet tops - 3-4 leaves
• lemon juice - 3 tablespoons
• green cilantro, parsley or dill
• olive oil for dressing
• salt and freshly ground pepper

Cooking:

1. Peeled avocado pulp, cut into cubes or strips, while you need to pour the cooked slices with lemon juice so that they do not darken.
2. Cut the tomatoes into thin slices, cut the grinder and onion into quarters of rings, while if there is a lot of onion and it is too bitter, its amount must be reduced so as not to drown out the delicate flavor of the avocado.
3. Cut the leaves of beet tops into thin curly strips and also sprinkle with lemon juice. Finely chop the greens of cilantro, parsley or dill (optional).
4. Mix all these ingredients in a salad bowl, salt to taste and sprinkle with freshly ground pepper, season with olive oil and move. Salad ready!
5. Not only amazingly tasty, but also healthy, green bean salads and soft Feta cheese are obtained.

Video.

Salad of bean pods and Feta cheese with the addition of croutons.

Ingredients:

• green beans - 250 g
• Feta cheese - 90 g
• black olives - 10 pieces
• almonds - 20 g
• white baguette - 200 g
• lemon juice - 3-4 tablespoons
• 3-4 garlic cloves
• Dill
• salt, red pepper
• olive oil

Cooking:

1. Cut the white bread into cubes and fry in a frying pan with the addition of olive oil to make the croutons more crispy, you can dry them a little more in the oven. Grate the finished crackers with garlic cloves.
2. Defrost bean pods and cook in boiling water for 7 minutes with the addition of a tablespoon of lemon juice, drain excess water and put in a salad bowl.
3. Cut the feta into small cubes, cut the almonds into quarters. Chop greens.
4. In a salad bowl, mix cooked toast cubes, boiled young beans, cheese cubes, black olives and chopped almonds.
5. Prepare salad dressing in a separate container by mixing 2 or 3 tablespoons of lemon juice with a little olive oil, salt and red pepper can also be added there. Pour over the salad and mix well. Bon appetit to you and your guests!
6. A New Year's feast in almost every family is unlikely to do without traditional Olivier salads and herring under a fur coat. But, fortunately, the New Year holidays are long enough, there will be many holidays. And what is better to cook from the proposed options for each holiday is up to you to choose.

What snacks to cook for the New Year 2017? Recipes.

What would be something to cook from snacks that would correspond to the year of the Rooster, be tasty and remember for a long time? Homemade rolls, this is what is very important now, many people love them very much, besides, they are quite simple to prepare.

Classic rolls with salmon, cucumber and cheese. Recipe.

Ingredients:

• 200 g salmon
• 150 g hard cheese
• fresh cucumbers - 2 pieces
• long grain rice - 200 g
• pressed kelp sheets for rolls
• wasabi sauce
• special mat for rolling rolls

For the sauce with which it is customary to serve rolls to the table:

• juice of half a lemon
• a tablespoon of apple cider vinegar
• soy sauce
• a pinch of sugar

Cooking:

1. Rinse rice several times and boil over low heat in a volume of water that is exactly twice the volume of rice. When cooking rice, do not salt or stir, and then cool at room temperature.
2. Cut cucumbers, cheese and salmon into thin long strips.
3. On a roll mat, pre-wrapped with foil, put a sheet of kelp in the center. Put a thin layer of rice on the sheet, leaving free space on top of the sheet and moisten it with water. This is done so that the empty part of the wet sheet holds the roll together and it does not fall apart.
4. Next, draw a thin strip of wasabi sauce over the rice, the strip should not pass in the middle of the laid out rice, but closer to the lower end of the seaweed sheet. Arrange the cucumber, cheese, and fish strips evenly along the wasabi strip.
5. Roll up the roll with a mat. Cut the resulting roll with a very sharp knife into rolls of the thickness that seems most familiar.
6. For a sauce often served with these snacks in Japanese restaurants, combine a tablespoon of apple cider vinegar, the juice of half a lemon, 2 tablespoons of soy sauce, and a pinch of sugar.

Now there are a huge variety of varieties of these popular snacks. If you don't like salmon, you can replace it with eel or herring. Rolls or sushi, cold or baked, the choice is really very large, and what exactly to cook from these trendy snacks is up to you. Perhaps you want to make several types of rolls that your family members love so much.

On the New Year's table for the meeting of 2017, it will be very appropriate, unusual and original to look at salads, appetizers from germinated wheat. Sprouts of germinated wheat grains are simply extremely useful, they contain a storehouse of vitamins and microelements, and besides, they are very tasty. At first glance, it may seem that it is impossible to cook something for the festive table from such a common ingredient as germinated wheat. However, it is not. Here, for example, is a salad appetizer recipe that will definitely not leave your guests indifferent and emphasize your exquisite taste.

Appetizer-salad of wheat germ "Original".

Ingredients:

• kiwi and banana one each
• 150 g hard cheese
• wheat germ - 3 tablespoons
• 2 tablespoons pomegranate seeds
• 1.5 tablespoons liquid honey
• juice of ½ part lemon

Cooking:

1. Banana and kiwi cut into large cubes, mix with chopped wheat germ. Season the resulting mixture with lemon juice and honey, mix. Sprinkle finely grated cheese on top and garnish with pomegranate seeds.
2. Such an appetizer is not only healthy and tasty, but also completely in the spirit of the symbol of 2017.
3. In order to somehow diversify the vegetable component of New Year's dishes, you can offer another snack, which is becoming more and more popular year by year, because many have already appreciated its juiciness and unique taste. These are baked stuffed champignons.

Baked stuffed champignons for the New Year 2017.

Ingredients:

• champignons - the number of pieces is approximately 15 (for the number of guests), it is better to choose an average size, while they should all be about the same size
• white part of a leek or green onion
• hard cheese - 300 g
• breadcrumbs - 2 tablespoons
• garlic clove
• salt pepper

Cooking:

1. Prepare mushrooms - cut off their legs at the very base, only hats should remain, which need to be slightly salted and set aside while the filling is being prepared. Don't throw out your legs!
2. Filling: cut the onion into rings and fry until golden brown, then add finely chopped mushroom stalks, chop the garlic clove, add salt and pepper, fry it all for 7 minutes. At the end of the frying, add breadcrumbs. When the filling has cooled, for juiciness, add some of the cheese grated on a fine grater, but not all.
3. Put the finished filling into mushroom caps and cover each with a layer of grated cheese on top. Place on a greased baking sheet and bake in the oven at 190 degrees for 10 minutes.

What hot dishes to cook for the New Year 2017? Recipes.

As mentioned earlier, of all the recipes for hot dishes for the New Year's holiday 2017, hot chicken dishes should be avoided. Therefore, this New Year's feast will have to do without grilled chicken.

But there are other varieties of poultry meat, hot dishes from which will become real decorations of the New Year's table, for example, turkey meat dishes.

Turkey baked with bacon.

Ingredients:

• turkey (it is better to take a medium-sized bird weighing about 4 kg)
• bacon slices
• 2 citrus fruits (separately a lemon and plus a mandarin or orange to it)
• olive oil - 20 ml
• fragrant herbs (sprigs of sage, cilantro, rosemary, thyme)
• salt, freshly ground black pepper

To prepare aromatic oil you will need:

• 250 g thawed butter
• 3-4 garlic cloves
• one small lemon
• salt, black pepper
• one tablespoon of fresh, finely chopped herbs (parsley, rosemary or sage)

Cooking:

1. First, the turkey should be salted, peppered inside and out, anointed with olive oil and refrigerated until the next day.
2. The next day, start preparing butter with fragrant herbs: mix butter that has melted at room temperature (not liquid!) With various chopped fresh herbs with the addition of lemon juice from a whole citrus and zest.
3. On the brisket of the soaked bird, make a small incision, free the area under the skin and place the cooked oil with aromatic herbs in this space. In this case, you need to try to gently smooth the oil under the skin of the turkey with your fingers, and rub the carcass well on the outside with the rest. Next, place the turkey in the refrigerator to solidify the oil.
4. After that, inside the turkey, you need to insert a whole lemon, onion and half an orange, some fragrant herbs in the form of twigs. At the same time, empty spaces must remain inside the turkey. The bird should be baked in an oven preheated to 180 degrees for the first half an hour in the open, and then pulled out and covered with foil on top of the turkey, bake for another half an hour.
5. After these 30 minutes, you need to put bacon slices in a row on the turkey breast and bake again without foil for 15 minutes.
6. Remove the finished hot dish from the oven and stand for another 25 minutes under the foil.

Video.

Meat in French

Meat in French for the New Year of the Rooster 2017

Recently, French-style meat recipes have appeared in all cookbooks, and for good reason, because this hot dish is very popular and is suitable not only for a festive table, but also for an ordinary day. In fact, this popular and tasty hot dish is quite simple to prepare, and guests invited to the festive table will remember it for a long time and ask for recipes.

Required Ingredients:

• meat - 400-500 g (better boneless pork, fillet)
• onion - 3 small onions
• mayonnaise - 200 g
• hard cheese (Dutch, Gouda or Russian) - 250 g
• salt and pepper
• butter for greasing the pan

Cooking:

1. Cut the meat into small flat pieces, 1 cm thick. You need to cut across the fibers with a very sharp knife. Beat the slices on both sides and sprinkle with salt and pepper to taste each of them.
2. Lubricate the heated baking sheet with butter and put the chops of meat close to each other on it. Put a layer of onion thin half rings on top of the meat layer so that the onion tightly covers the meat. Top both layers with mayonnaise.
3. We load the baking sheet into the oven, preheated to 180 degrees, for 30 minutes. While the meat is baking, grate the cheese on a fine grater. Sprinkle the meat with this cheese and place the baking sheet in the oven for another 20 minutes.
4. A very tasty hot dish for the New Year's holiday is ready, it remains when serving, sprinkle the meat with finely chopped herbs.
5. Of course, each housewife will decide what to cook for the New Year's feast, depending on the taste preferences of her family members, and these will not necessarily be the dishes offered, because each family has their own favorite salads, snacks and other dishes.

Video.

So, there is very little time left before the moment when the President of Russia makes a solemn speech, the Kremlin chimes strike, and 2016 will become history, giving way to 2017.

New 2017 according to the Eastern calendar

According to the eastern calendar, the coming year 2017 is Year of the Fire Rooster. And although in fact the eastern calendar does not come into its own on the night of December 31 to January 1, but only at the end of January, in Russia it is traditionally customary to honor the totem already on New Year's Eve

What to cook for the New Year of the Rooster - 2017

Here, the opinions of connoisseurs of Eastern traditions differ: some believe that since the Year of the Rooster is coming, the “birthday boy” himself should be well represented on the New Year’s table, that is, it is preferable to celebrate the New Year with an abundance of various chicken dishes.

But most specialists in New Year's traditions are inclined to believe that it would be too cruel and short-sighted to eat the one to whom the holiday is dedicated: what if the Fire Rooster refuses to help in various matters planned for next year! Therefore, knowledgeable people offer to feast on whatever their heart desires, with the exception of chicken and poultry meat in general.

In addition, it is worth putting on the New Year's table something that the Fiery Rooster himself will like.

What should be on the table in the New 2017 Year of the Fire Rooster

Grain, bread, flour products

Firstly, these are dishes containing treats for birds: wheat, rice, various cereals, corn. Dumplings with meat (not chicken!) stuffing, canapes with various types of bread, cheese, sausages, vegetables, fish, shrimp and other seafood will be appropriate. There will be pizza to the place - both home-made and ready-made (of course, not with chicken!).

New Year's salads should also not be with chicken, but with other types of meat, as well as with sausage, fish, seafood, etc. Well, in order for the Fiery Rooster to imbue you with favor, sprinkle the salads on the New Year's table with small crackers.

Fish and meat

The Fire Rooster will like fish and meat dishes, especially if you decorate them with vegetables of bright colors: peppers, carrots, tomatoes. Red caviar is also appropriate, especially on sandwiches.

Fruits and vegetables

Here you will definitely not be mistaken: the more fruits and vegetables on the New Year's table and the brighter they are, the better. Since the totem Rooster rushing towards us is fiery red, the presence of fruits and vegetables of red and orange colors is especially appropriate on the festive table. It can be stuffed red peppers or tomatoes, as well as any bright vegetable salads. Figures of cockerels carved from carrots and beets will also come in handy to decorate the dishes and the table.

From fruits, the Fiery Rooster will like red apples and grapes, as well as oranges and unchanged New Year's tangerines.

New Year's drinks in the Year of the Rooster - 2017

The fiery rooster is a bright bird that knows how to show itself. Therefore, in addition to traditional champagne, feel free to put red wine on the New Year's table, including sparkling, colorful liquors and tinctures, bright fruit drinks, make crunches and mulled wine - in short, have fun from the heart, not forgetting, however, about health and common sense. But it is advisable to avoid vodka: This drink is not very to the taste of the Fiery Rooster (well, except maybe a small glass of cranberry).

How to decorate the New Year's table in the year of the Fire Rooster - 2017

Here - full scope for imagination, but do not forget about the image of a rooster: the owner of the New Year will like it. Tablecloths with folk motifs in the form of stylized images of roosters, napkins with a corresponding pattern, figurines of roosters made from fruits and vegetables, cookies in the form of birds, etc. In short, go for it, but don't forget about the Rooster.

In what colors to celebrate the New 2017 Year of the Rooster

The fiery rooster loves red, orange, ruby, crimson, carmine and gold colors, which can be effectively combined with black and white. It is in outfits of such colors that it makes sense to celebrate the New Year (at least for women), the same shades will be appropriate when decorating home interiors.